Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods

The absence of knowledge of the Good is madness. Still, in our age, Being manifests itself only in the mode of absence. “It is a time of the gods that have fled and the god that is to come. It is a time of need, because it lies under a double lack and a double Not: the No more of the gods that have fled and the Not yet of the god that is coming” (Heidegger).